Amusement device.



E. R. RAMSEY.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED 52M. 27, 1911.

Patented Mar. 26, 1912;

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EDIA R. RAMSEY, OF PENN YAN, NEW YORK.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 27, 1911.

Patented Mar. 26, 1912.

Serial No. 651,525.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDIA R. RAMSEY, a citizen of the United States of America, and residing at Penn Yan, in the county of Yates and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Amusement Devices, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to amusement devices, particularly of that class adapted for resorts, State and county fairs, circuses, and other gatherings of a holiday character, and the object thereof is to provide a pastime which gives a person the opportunity for displaying his skill, strength, or ability, and which visually registers the same.

A further object is to so arrange the visual evidences of a players skill, etc., as to represent a game or sport, such as baseball, and wherein the various plays made in such game may be apparently duplicated by a player of my device, the various plays depending upon the degree of efliciency of the player, and also upon his strength.

A further object is to have the play indicators arranged to represent the diamond of a base-ball field, so that a player may drive a ball to any desired part of the field to send a man to any of the bases as also to the home-plate, but I do not confine myself to base-ball alone, as my device may be adapted to various games, or meet various desired conditions, and with these and other objects in mind my invention consists in the apparatus and results hereinafter fully described and claimed.

My invention is fully described in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts are designated by the same reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a view of my invention, in one form of embodiment, of the playing end thereof; Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view of the entire apparatus electrical arrangement, as well as the indicating end; and Fig. 3 is a detail view taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings forming a part of this application, I have shown a grooved wheel or pulley a carried by suitable supports a and having a wire, cord, or cable a normally wound thereon and to the outer end of which is secured a ball I), said cable being preferably held in guides a, and a and being normally held upon a hook a, pivotally mounted at (i, and adapted to be tripped to release the cable by means of a cord a or the like, and which may be led to any convenient point.

Mounted upon the periphery of the wheel a are a plurality of equidistant posts 0, cl, 6, f, g, h, 2', which may be of any desired number; or arrangement, each of said posts having a conductive plate 0 (Z 6 etc., on one side thereof, and with which a wire 0 (Z 6 etc., is in electrical connection, said wires or conductors being so arranged upon the wheel as to permit its revolving without entangling the same, and each of the said conductors being connected with one pole of an electric lamp, thus connecting the post 0 with a lamp 0, (Z with a lamp 01 c with a lamp 0*, f with a lamp f, g with a lamp 9, h with a lamp 71. and i with a lam-p i, said lamps being arranged to designate, in the form shown, 1st base, 2nd base, 3rd base, left-field, right-field, center-field, and homeplate, respectively, of a base-ball field, and all of said lamps are connected with a return conductor 70 through a battery or other source of electrical energy 70 to a contact arm is, by means of wires 0 d 6 etc., said arm 7.: being of conductive material and be ing pivoted in such manner as to permit its movement in one direction only and being maintained in normal position by means of a spring 70.

A player is given a base-ball bat m and, when he is ready, the operator releases the cable from the hook a by pulling the cord a thus permitting the ball 6 to drop and describe an arc of a circle and during which movement the player attempts to strike the ball with the bat in the usual manner. If he succeeds in doing so, the impetus imparted thereto revolves the wheel a and unwinds the cable therefrom to a degree depending upon the force and the fairness of the blow, the posts on the wheel readily pass- 7 k may be manually moved to permit the spring 0 to carry the wheel to normal position, and the cable may be again passed over and into engagement with the hook a ready for another operation. It will thus be seen that any one of a plurality of successively arranged signals may be energized to indicate the skill of the player and also to approximately play the game, and these signals may not alone be energized by the force of a blow, as in the present showing, but they may also be arranged to indicate the fairness of the strike, the direction of ball movement, balls, fouls, and the like, and I may also adapt my invention to other games.

Having fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In an amusement device, a captive ball adapted to be struck by a bat in the hands of a player, a plurality of electric lamps arranged to represent a ball-field, and means operated by said ball in its flight for energizing any one of said lamps depending upon the character of the blow.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 20th day of September 1911.

EDIA R. RAMSEY.

WVitnesses:

ADELBERT M. TODD, CHARLES A. SHULTZ.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five pants each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

